Category Archives: conferences

My Continuing Education Training: Clinical and Ethical Issues Related to Social Networking and College Mental Health

This Friday, October 23rd, I will be presenting a 5 hour Continuing Education training that I organized for the annual Northern California Training Directors Conference. This conference will be attended by Training Directors and clinical trainees of fifteen Bay Area college counseling centers. I will be joined by James Lyda, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist at the [...]

Still Time to Vote on SXSW 2010 Panel: From Freud to Facebook

The PanelPicker doesn’t close until the end of the day next Friday, September 4th. So if you like the panel I’m co-proposing with Dr. John Grohol, and you haven’t yet voted, please do. We are working on adding some great speakers who are working within technology and psychology. And please know that comments and questions [...]

SXSW 2010 Panel Submission – Psychology and the Internet: From Freud to Facebook

The SXSW 2010 PanelPicker is live today and I’m very excited about the panel that I have submitted for SXSW Interactive with John Grohol, Psy.D., CEO and co-founder of the mental health network, PsychCentral. You can vote for our panel (and others you’re excited about seeing at SXSW 2010, including music and film panels) by [...]

Exciting Mental Health Camp Panels

Tonight, I’ll be heading to Vancouver to attend tomorrow’s all-day Mental Health Camp (Un)Conference. I’m very excited to be in a place with others who will be talking about erasing stigma towards mental illness and how social media can expand the possibilities for healing and support. Can blogging, Twittering, and Facebooking provide therapeutic healing? Isabella [...]

Social Networking, Visibility, and the Therapeutic Alliance: My Presentation at Mental Health Camp in Vancouver

I just found out that my proposal for Mental Health Camp has been accepted. My panel is called, “Social Networking, Visibility, and the Therapeutic Alliance.” It will be in conversation format and will address issues related to the therapist-client relationship and how both clients and therapists feel about sharing online social spaces. I first heard [...]